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Displaying the pre-filters used, as the used facets are dispalyed
It would be very useful to display the pre-filters used in Primo New UI (from both simple search screen - as of May release and advanced search screen). Pre-filters used should be displayed in the brief results list just as the facets used are displayed, at the top of the column. Thus the patron can always see and be aware of all the active filters in the session
61 votes -
[PRIMO] Allow normalization of Primo Central Index PC records
It would be great to have the ability to normalize the Primo Central records using NR set as we do for local records.
This would be very beneficial. For example:- Customers could choose their own facet values and harmonize them with local records.
- Values only in PC records could be removed of modified (e.g. toplevel facet values for Open access and Peer Reviewed )
- FRBR and Dedup could be performed also against local records, thus greatly improving results in blended search. etc.
13 votes -
Improve usability of exclude/include facet options
Based on recent usability testing of the new UI we have found that our users appeared to be confused about how to include and exclude facet options from their results set. One of the main pain points seemed to be that they did not know that they were able to exclude a specific facet option (for example to exclude English items from the results set most of our users ticked all options under the language facet other then English rather then just excluding the English option).
At the moment the option to exclude only appears when someone hovers over the…
125 votes -
Patron must agree the borrowing request agreement in Primo before booking a Kindle book
The customer of 86CUHKSZ would like to add a borrowing request agreement in Primo, so when a patron wants to book a Kindle book, the borrowing request agreement must be read and agreed at first, otherwise, the patron cannot book the Kindle book. And the customer would like to have an interface to update the agreement accordingly.
1 vote -
Friendly EERROR Message should be displayed when customer input a wrong primo URL
When user inputs a wrong primo URL such as: http://discovery.lib.shanghaitech.edu.cn:1701/primo_library/libweb/uploaded_files/shtech/index.php?s=captcha
By now Primo displays a messy page(See attachment)
We would like to see a more friendly ERROR message page without the messy information
2 votes -
[Primo] - add tag delivery/fulltext to local PNX , thus improving blended search and full text availability information
The feature "Expand My Results / Results with no full-text" allows to include in the search results PCI records with no full text. It relies on a pnx value in tag "fulltext" delivery section:
<delivery>
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<fulltext>no_fulltext</fulltext>
</delivery>The problem is that <fulltext> tag / field is not available in the Normalization Rule for local records.
The consequence is for example that when we harvest data from our dpace institutional repository we may have fulltext, but sometimes we may have just metadata records. But without the delivery/fulltext field in the PNX we can't manage records with just metadata so that…
24 votes -
Categorise dbs/guides/sites via Primo admin. The databases be indexed, searched or browsed for in PrimoVE customers that do not have Alma
The ability to subject categorise databases, library guides, Web sites etc via Primo admin. The databases and guides they are included in the Primo index so that the words in the title, description or keywords when searched will appear within the results. Also so the resources can browsed for in PrimoVE or Primo classic by the categories so there is not a long list to scroll through. This is for customers that do not have Alma or any library catalogue. I have seen you can currently do this only for Alma catalogue users.
3 votes -
Display call number and/or barcode in list of fines in Primo
We like to display the alternative call number in the patron's list of fines in Primo for fees that are attached to an item. As well there should be the permanent call number or at least the item barcode in cases there is no alternative call number. Often, the items title is not sufficient to find the correct item in ALMA, and the staff at the circulation desks have problems to clarify witch items are concerned. In Alma the item barcode is already displayed in the list of fees/fines and this should be reflected in Primo as well.
This functionality…
30 votes -
Provide LibGuides Type Functionality in Studio
Expand the new Primo Studio functionality to include an ability to create content like many of us are using through LibGuides. A simple content management system that would allow us to create simple web pages would allow us to replicate things like subject guides directly in Primo. If that content can also be indexed and searchable through the Primo VE search box that would be even better! This would avoid the need for seperate systems like LibGuides.
7 votes -
An option to move the send-to section in Primo VE
We would like to be able to control the location of the send-to section in the Primo VE full record display.
99 votes -
Active Links in Journal Record when Searching in Journals
Currently when you search for a journal in a general search the full record will have links to the author, subject heading, etc. When you use the actual Journal Search this links are not available. It would be nice to have active links in this record as well.
135 votes -
Resource Recommender / searchable tags / language code table
If you want to use the Resource Recommender feature in more languages than just English, you have to put all tags into the "Searchable Tags" box of the English interface. If you change to another language, the box is greyed out and can't be edited.
I would like to suggest an overhaul of this part of the RR to make the "Searchable Tags" just as avaible for other languages as title and description are.
3 votes -
Primo Central note field - include in export
In the new Primo Central Activation User Interface (Feb 2019 release) you can now add notes to Primo Central collections. Would it be possible for the notes field to be included in the export to excel?
9 votes -
Optimize call number Advanced Search
Currently you can conduct an advanced call number search, but there are a few issues with it:
-It doesn't properly search the entry as a call number like the Browse function does. It treats it like a regular word which results in severely incomplete results. For example, if I do advanced search > call number > contains > MT, I receive 90 results, though we have 3,578 items with call numbers that begin with MT.
-The only way to see a mostly accurate number of holdings is to search partial numbers + an asterisk. For example, MT* returns most of…
67 votes -
To keep button "I like" of facebook in the new UI.
A feature that many users would like to keep in the Primo new UI is the button of facebook "I like" in the records.
2 votes -
Aleph patron setting - "force change password at the first login" in Primo (Privacy and security of personal data)
Aleph doesn't have a Parameter or a flag on the patron record to "force the Password change at the first Login". This is a security Problem, related GDPR and privacy of personal data. Users must be force to change their Password at the first Login. Please consider implementing this Feature in Aleph.
14 votes -
Citation Linker does not ignore initial articles
The Journal search in the Citation Linker doesn't always ignore the initial article. I'm referring to "articles" in the grammar sense (the, a, an, etc). So for example, you get different "view it" results for Washington Post vs. The Washington Post. This isn't a huge issue, but it is confusing.
17 votes -
Add MODS template as Date Source for OAI-PMH harvest
Currently, there is no MODS template for OAI-PMH harvesting of external collections. As an example, we have many collections in an Islandora repository and have very rich metadata in MODS format. We lose most of that metadata when the collection is harvested because we must use the DC template as the Source format.
57 votes -
Make Journal titles hyperlinks
Hi there, users would be helped if search results didn't just bring back links to articles but also had the journal title hyperlinked to take them to the journal's home page or contents page. To help further there could be text box that instructs the user to search for the article they're looking for in the journal's site. Deep links to articles are the most common to fail so this improvement would help students find the articles within journal/publishers sites. Saving time and making them give up less easily.
Thanks for your consideration.
Cheers, James12 votes -
Add 'Show more' - 'Show less' options
Where Primo displays significant amounts of metadata from a single record in search results and the 'Details' section (such as very long lists of authors / subjects or very detailed summaries, contents notes, etc.), it would be useful if the text being displayed was truncated and options to Show more/less were provided for the user.
23 votes
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